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Why Weren’t the October 7 attacks Avoided?
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Why Weren’t the October 7 attacks Avoided?

Dan Steinbock

On October 7, 2023 – two years ago – the Hamas-led offensive was portrayed as “Israel’s 9/11” that came out of the blue. This assumption […]

“The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám  1:18

“The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:18

10/06/2025 By Juan Cole

Goodbye Petrostates, Hello ‘Electrostates’: how the clean Energy Shift is reshaping the World Order

Goodbye Petrostates, Hello ‘Electrostates’: how the clean Energy Shift is reshaping the World Order

10/06/2025 By The Conversation

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Climate Change
Our burning of Fossil Fuels slowing down Atlantic Currents and Spelling TROUBLE

Our burning of Fossil Fuels slowing down Atlantic Currents and Spelling TROUBLE

TeleSur | – – The findings imply that models used to project global warming scenarios had likely underestimated the contribution of a weakening AMOC, said […]

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Democratic Party
Protests won't stop Trump derailing Mueller Inquiry; Putting the Left in Congress Will

Protests won’t stop Trump derailing Mueller Inquiry; Putting the Left in Congress Will

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The broad hints Trump gave Monday that the search of his personal attorney’s offices on a […]

Juan Cole

Militarization
America’s Forever Wars as Spectator Sport

America’s Forever Wars as Spectator Sport

By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The purpose of all wars, is peace. So observed St. Augustine early in the first […]

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Iran
Iraq’s al-Sadr offers to mediate between Riyadh, Tehran

Iraq’s al-Sadr offers to mediate between Riyadh, Tehran

Middle East Monitor | – – Prominent Iraqi Shia cleric and opposition leader Muqtada al-Sadr has declared his willingness to mediate between Saudi Arabia and […]

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Israel/ Palestine
‘Son of a Whore’: Video Shows Israeli Troops Cheering After Shooting Unarmed Palestinian

‘Son of a Whore’: Video Shows Israeli Troops Cheering After Shooting Unarmed Palestinian

TeleSur | – – While the world condemns Israel’s use of lethal force, Israeli politicians and policy makers defend soldiers’ cheering of shooting unarmed Palestinians. […]

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Syria
Bombed and gassed into oblivion: The lost oasis of Damascus

Bombed and gassed into oblivion: The lost oasis of Damascus

By Karen Pinto | (The Conversation) | – – Dozens of people, including children, were killed this past weekend by an alleged chemical weapons attack […]

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Corruption
Will Trump divert attention from Cohen Raid by attacking Syria?

Will Trump divert attention from Cohen Raid by attacking Syria?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Matt Apuzzo of the New York Times reports that FBI agents produced a warrant at the […]

Juan Cole

Chemical Weapons
If the world doesn't stop Chemical Massacres at Syria, who is Next?

If the world doesn’t stop Chemical Massacres at Syria, who is Next?

By Michelle Bentley | (The Conversation) | – – Seven years into its catastrophic conflict, Syria has witnessed yet another major chemical strike. This time […]

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Iraq
Why are only tinpot War Criminals Punished?  What about the Architects of the Iraq War?

Why are only tinpot War Criminals Punished? What about the Architects of the Iraq War?

By Peter Singer | (Project Syndicate) | – – It is unlikely that former US President George W. Bush or any member of his administration […]

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